Constanza Area, ex-CinemaChile head, Launches Agencia La Luz

In a groundbreaking transfer, Constanza Arena, the previous government director of CinemaChile, has established Agencia La Luz, an company and challenge incubator that can characterize in worldwide markets lots of Chile’s foremost writing, directing and appearing abilities.

Many writers are linked to Chile’s fast-growing premium drama/audio scene. Julio Rojas, one Agencia La Luz shopper, created and wrote “Case 63,” Spotify’s most-listened-to scripted unique podcast in Latin America, with an English-language model I the works starring Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac, and co-wrote Pablo Fendrik’s Latino sci-fi sequence ‘The Shelter,’ from Starzplay, Pantaya, Fabula, Fremantle. 

Enrique Videla and Paula del Fierro co-wrote Lucia Puenzo’s “La Jauría” for Fabula and Fremantle, whereas Videla, one among Chile’s largest go-to scribes, co-wrote “Dignity” for Germany’s Joyn, “42 Days of Darkness” for Fabula and Netflix,  “The Shelter” and “The Cliff” for The Mediapro Studio. 

Agencia La Luz’s director lineup likewise takes in largely younger on-the-rise expertise which has damaged out with early films.  Actor-turned-director Manuela Martelli made a formidable characteristic debut as a helmer with “1976” which world premiered at Cannes Administrators’ Fortnight this yr, scoring 100% constructive opinions on Rotten Tomatoes. 

Theo Courtroom’s second characteristic, “White on White,” received the Venice Horizons greatest director award, and was chosen as Chile Oscar entry.  

A brace of La Luz abilities have been swooped on by  “Spencer” producer Fabula, Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín’s premium film and sequence manufacturing powerhouse, to steer titles for main streamers.  

Pepa San Martin, who received the Berlin Competition’s Technology Kplus Grand Prix and San Sebastians Horizontes Latinos together with her debut “Rara,” is now co-directing with Sergio Castro (“La Mujer de Barro”), one other Luz shopper, “Llévame al cielo,” from Fábula and Disney+s first sequence to be shot completely in Chile.   

Of actors, Paula Luchsinger headlines Pablo Larrain’s subsequent film “El Conde”; Renata Gonzalez Spraljic heads “Llévame al cielo.”

Additional purchasers soak up Alejandro Goic, an everyday within the movies of Fernando Guzzoni,  a Venice Horizons Award winner this month for “Blanquita”; Julio Jorquera, who has directed episodes of  “Information of a Kidnapping,” produced for Prime Video by AGC Studios and Invercine&Wooden; and Alondra Valenzuela and Sara Becker, stars of Lone Sherfig’s “La Contadora De Películas.”

Agencia La Luz will characterize its purchasers on third-party productions but in addition assist generate and bundle tasks which it is going to take to the worldwide market, Area informed Selection.

“We’ll characterize expertise inn entrance of and behind the digital camera,” Area stated. “We’re seeking to export abilities and internationalize careers, develop concepts and companies, join folks and tasks. We’ll accompany, orientate, advise and information careers, concepts and works,” she added.

La Luz’s expertise can profit from Area’s far-ranging community of contacts, one of many broadest of any government in Latin America, run up from 2012 to this yr by her work as government director of CinemaChile, which she constructed up into one among Latin America’s most formidable worldwide film-TV promotion orgs.  

Market components additionally play in Agencia La Luz’s favor. At present, there’s a feeding frenzy in most main markets for top-class expertise. For the final 15 years and extra, Chile has punched approach above its weight producing an extended litany of main pageant movie winners and now producing artistically bold drama sequence for streamers and super-indies around the globe. 

In a brand new streamer atmosphere, the Spanish-speaking world is rising as the most important accesible language market on earth, accounting for 9 of Netflix’s high 20 non-English sequence and flicks. Most of La Luz’s expertise checklist continues to be younger or very younger in skilled phrases and its ambitions, given the small dimension of Chile’s market, soak up success overseas.